Chaos engineering is fun but especially important when building solutions in the cloud. It is great leveraging the cloud to build something, whether that’s a globally distributed website with...
2023-06-28 (first published: 2023-06-08)
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We all would like to save money when operating in the cloud, Microsoft has released a stop / start concept for SQL Managed Instances – preview mode! At the...
2023-01-12
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This blog post is not about which User Interface is better, Classic or Snowsight – If anyone does want my feedback on what I like and don’t like about...
2022-11-25
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Cloning is a powerful feature within snowflake (also known as zero copy clone). You can obviously clone at the database or schema level but also tables too. It’s a...
2022-11-11
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Rarely do I say I love a feature across any technologies I have come across, in the snowflake world this is right up there. I tend to find this...
2022-10-27
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Snowflake does a great job on documenting the key pair process using bash for Linux environments. That’s great, but what if you need to work within a windows environment...
2022-10-12
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Everyone has heard of scaling up and scaling out compute. Have you ever heard about a term called scaling across? Before Snowflake, I never. Scaling up and down is...
2022-10-11
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Whatever your database background is you will have heard of an execution / explain plan. Snowflake is no different. Coming from a MS SQL background I was used to...
2022-09-23
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Now let’s start the process of creating a snowflake account in the Azure Cloud. You can sign up for a free trial from here – https://signup.snowflake.com/ I am going...
2022-09-23 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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At the most basic level, Snowflake has 3 important components. The Cloud services layer, centralised storage layer and the compute layer. Cloud services – they call this the “brains”...
2022-07-19
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By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers